Producers listen to a speaker at the 2015 Nebraska Soybean Day and Machinery Expo. The 2016 event is 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Dec. 15 in the pavilion at the Saunders County Fairgrounds in Wahoo. (Photo by Deloris Pittman)

Featured topics at this year's Nebraska Soybean Day include maximizing weed control while managing resistance; understanding effects of large equipment and tires on compaction; managing sudden death syndrome; and marketing soybeans and corn.

Scott Spohn, with Spohn Farms in Friend, pauses after offloading corn and watches as his father continues harvesting in October 2015. The 2016 Market Journal Roadshow will focus on ag outlook and management decisions for Nebraska farmers and ranchers at four locations across the state from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2.

The 2016 Market Journal Roadshow will focus on ag outlook and management decisions for Nebraska farmers and ranchers at four locations across the state from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. The roadshow is in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Agricultural Economics' Cornhusker Outlook Series.

If you're interested in incorporating unmanned aircraft systems into your business operations and agricultural enterprises, learn more at this Nebraska Extension continuing education training, Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Workshops will be held at five sites in November

Learn about managing your risk in the current ag climate at a Nov. 9 Nebraska Extension crop insurance workshop. Speakers will be from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska banking industry, agribusiness, and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a second generation of underground sensor technology to automate decision-making for crop irrigation.